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I used a 3M adhesive spray can. Don't remember exactly which one (maybe, maybe, maybe 78). It was easy to apply. Amazing how well it has held up all these years with my car sitting in the hot sun all day.
I did the headliner, visors, and sunshade. I had a detailed write up of the entire project, but had a computer hard disk failure in 2017 and it was lost. Fortunately, most of the pictures survived, so if anyone wants to see some, I could post a few here.
I understand you don't recall exactly what type of 3M you used but do you remember if it was the one for high temperature applications? I've heard some adhesives fail cause they're not rated for high heat that can build up in a car parked In the sun on a summer day.
I'm sorry I can't remember the details of the 3M adhesive I used. But I did find a photo of the visors being done that show the 'spider-web' pattern that the adhesive made on the grey foam fabric backing. I remember that quite well because I had never seen that from a spray, and at the time I thought it was weird. So that pattern might be a clue...
And too bad the spray can didn't make the photo.
I'm just so sad that my write-up and photos of the whole headliner project process has been lost. I worked so hard on it...
Maybe someday I can rescue those files from the crashed hard-drive, which I still have in case I can get someone affordable to retrieve my files from it.
Last edited by StarLady 92-SC; Apr 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM.
Door panels complete.
Final result looks better than it would look if two 10-year-olds did it so there's a plus. Impossible to line things up perfectly on your first try.
New headliner is installed, along with the trim that holds it up.
Back deck installed, took 18 seconds.
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Pictures of the door gluing, headliner and trim install to be posted this evening. Just need to debuzz the doors and the back deck before putting the door panels back on
Hey, derf: I didn't mean to hijack your thread. Just hanging around waiting for your pictures...
Sorry bout the delay, but the headliner was crooked and when I went to reattach the handle, visors, and such, the things were ever so slightly off and some of the holes were not accessible.
Ultimately I had to pull almost all the trim back off except the four corners and shift the entire headliner little by little until everything lined up. Incredibly fun as a one person exercise.
Seemingly got that done, but then noticed that I had put the strap handle mounts back incorrectly and I haven't had time to sort out how they do belong. And can you believe I'm missing a screw. Somewhere in the car?
I'm sorry I can't remember the details of the 3M adhesive I used. But I did find a photo of the visors being done that show the 'spider-web' pattern that the adhesive made on the grey foam fabric backing. I remember that quite well because I had never seen that from a spray, and at the time I thought it was weird. So that pattern might be a clue...
And too bad the spray can didn't make the photo.
I'm just so sad that my write-up and photos of the whole headliner project process has been lost. I worked so hard on it...
Maybe someday I can rescue those files from the crashed hard-drive, which I still have in case I can get someone affordable to retrieve my files from it.
That write up would be a great contribution if you could retrieve it. Did you ever try hooking the drive up to a good computer and attempt to access the data?
Also, you made your visors out of carboard fedex boxes? I didn't know you could do that
If your hard drive was going click click click, put it in the freezer upside down for a few hours. Take it out, hook it up as a secondary non-boot drive and keep it upside down. Cooling it way down keeps the hard drive controller electronics from immediately overheating and malfunctioning.
If the drive is still not recognized as a secondary drive, just as it starts to spin up or tries, give it a firm swam face down on the table. Idea behind this is it will free the reading mechanism if it is physically hung up for some reason. Downside is that if that is not the problem, you are smashing the reading head into the disc itself and nothing good usually comes up that. Out of four different machines in the back of my friends shop, I had it work once. It's amazing how fast you can copy stuff when you have no other choice when working on a ticking time bomb.
Disclaimer: freeze and slam at your own risk. you can also just leave it sitting upside down 4 months at a time see if the mechanism frees itself up
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Also, you made your visors out of carboard fedex boxes? I didn't know you could do that
Yeah, actually FedEx envelopes.
But then I decided that it was too flimsy and glued on another layer. They turned out great. The original factory visors *are* made of cardboard but have a core that is made of hard board (probably thin MDF) which, for some reason has holes) attached to a single rod. So it's the core, then cardboard, then fabric.
Last edited by StarLady 92-SC; Apr 29, 2025 at 01:34 AM.
As far as my hard drive goes... I'm not very tech-savvy and I couldn't begin to attempt doing anything with it. Most of all, I don't want to break it. I'll just have to be patient and hope I find someone who can retrieve the files. When it happened, I got an estimate from a computer repair shop, and they said around $300. Can't afford that. But that was 8 years ago, so maybe there's new technology now that makes it easier (cheaper) ...? I might go to another place and get a quote.
I think the holes were for ventilation.$300 is a price to copy data off a drive they can talk to. If not, much more expensive, probably in a clean room swapping the platters into a working unit.
